Some of the new U.S. $100 bills will be worth over $1,000

by Ben Reilly Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:31 pm

The things people collect ...

We are a couple of weeks away from getting our newly designed $100 bills, and when they arrive on October 8, some will actually be worth $1,000 ... or more.

No, the government isn't slipping in an extra zero. But it is including, as always, an eight-digit serial number. And as the Boston Globe explains, currency collectors will pay big if the numbers are "fancy." That's the collectors' term, not the Globe's, for serial numbers that fall in a number of categories: there are "low" (00000001 through 00000100), "ladders" (43210987), "radar' (43788734), "solids" (33333333), and "repeaters" (82118211). Then there are random ones: 31415927 (pi) or 07041776 (read that as 07/04/1776).

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/22/new-100-dollar-bills/2849643/

by veya_victaous Mon Sep 23, 2013 11:15 pm

That is interesting, I wonder are they distributed at random?

and will our US Newsfixers be checking the serial numbers on their notes? Wink

by Ben Reilly Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:07 am

I thought about it, but I just never really have that kind of money in cash -- when I do carry paper money it's generally $20 or less, just to be safe.

I had no idea people collected cash because of its unique serial numbers, though getting a pi one would be pretty cool Some of the new U.S. $100 bills will be worth over $1,000 22